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Successful storylines of horror movies can take place in the most unlikely of surroundings. While many films stick close to a typical haunted house format or make ample use of well-known movie monsters, others transform what should be peaceful places into the stuff of nightmares. Enter the summer camp setting: the perfect dueling ground for murderers and masked fiends against unsuspecting collections of campers, who thought their only issue during the warmer months would be hitting a bulls-eye in archery....

Miniseries have become one of the most popular storytelling formats in recent years, all thanks to streaming platforms like Netflix. In an era when social platforms like Tiktok entice us to consume media in a very rapid manner, our brains are way more susceptible to binge-watch series that don’t require that much of our free time. There’s an overwhelming number of new movies and TV shows coming out every month, hence why we’re more likely to choose a limited series to watch next, in order to keep up with everything....

Some of the best actors of our generation are defined by the extensive list of movies that make their careers memorable. Looking through Rebecca Hall’s roles in her incredibly impressive filmography, it is safe to say that she has made a name for herself in the entertainment industry. Hall made her acting debut at just 10 years old in a TV adaptation of The Camomile Lawn, directed by her father. Hall has exhibited her range as an actor during her career so far....

Mahershala Ali will be the third actor to portray Eric Brooks, better known as Daywalker vampire Blade, when Marvel reboots the character into the MCU in the next couple of years. Wesley Snipes first brought Blade to life in a trilogy of movies which ended with Blade Trinity in 2004, and then the role was taken over in 2006 by Kirk Jones, aka hip hop star Sticky Fingaz, in Blade: The Series, a live action TV show that ran for 13 episdoes on Spike TV....

It was announced by Troy Duffy himself in March that the sequel to his cult classic film Boondock Saints will happen. Now he’s revealed even more about The Boondock Saints 2. /Film has posted some excerpts from a radio interview Duffy did with the Washington D.C. radio station WJFK 106.7 where he described the plot of the film. “You kind of wonder what has happened to the brothers… They have been living way back in the valleys of Ireland with their father on a family run sheep farm, way beyond the reach of technology or men....

Actor Brad Pitt has been offered the lead role in Warner Bros.’ Manga adaptation All You Need Is Kill for director Doug Liman. All You Need Is Kill had previously been put on hold, since Doug Liman was planning to direct Luna for Paramount. However, the studio recently decided to pull the plug on Luna, which frees up Doug Liman to direct All You Need Is Kill. Warner Bros. then offered the lead role to Brad Pitt....

News of Better Call Saul broke before Breaking Bad ended its epic 5 season run this past summer. The series is planned as a true spin-off of Vince Gilligan’s iconic drama, and will follow Bob Odenkirk’s Saul Good, Attorney at Law. Originally, the upcoming hour-long dramedy was set to be a prequel, which would show us the origins of Saul, leading up to his true destiny and his crossing of paths with Walter White....

The visionary documentarian brings the story of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial to the big screen “We spent nine months on this film’s sound design. It kills me when I talk to people, and they tell me they watched it on DVD. I’m like, ‘You missed half the movie.’ I know a lot of filmmakers are going to say, ‘You must see my movie in a movie theater!’ But this is a movie where, if you don’t see it in Surround Digital, you miss the whole point....

Buffy the Vampire Slayer debuted in March 1997 on the WB, moving to WPN for its final two seasons and ending in 2003. Buffy the Vampire Slayer began as a movie in 1992, and, according to TV Tropes, was meant to turn the damsel-in-distress idea on its head, with a blonde girl taking on monsters and winning, rather than being the first one killed. The show would more than live up to this promise....

The winners of the Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement Awards for 2011, and the recipients of the Guild’s 2012 Career Achievement Awards were announced tonight during the 64th Annual DGA Awards Dinner at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles. Michel Hazanavicius won the DGA’s Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for The Artist. Following the welcome by DGA President Taylor Hackford to an audience of more than 1,600 guests, director/producer/actor Kelsey Grammer hosted the ceremony....

Audiences will have the chance to rewind and revisit the sizzling fifth season of 24 this summer with back-to-back episodes airing Fridays beginning June 16. The day of terror re-starts with “Day 5: 7:00 AM-8:00 AM” (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) and “Day 5: 8:00 AM-9:00 AM” (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) Friday, June 16 on FOX. 24’s critically celebrated season five features Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) and CTU operatives navigating through an intense and terrifying day as the breathtaking series took some of its sharpest turns....

After his surprise performance on this year’s Super Bowl Halftime show, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unit Film & Television has optioned Christopher Priest’s comic Xerø for development as a live-action film with an eye on a franchise. As Deadline reported, G-Unit Film & Television will produce the upcoming adaptation alongside Erika Alexander and Ben Arnon for Color Farm, as well as Joseph Illidge, who serves as CEO of the production and publishing company, Illuminous....

Raising Dion premiered as an original series on Netflix in 2019. It is based on the 2015 comic book and short film of the same name, and follows a woman named Nicole Warren (played by Alisha Wainwright) who is raising her son, Dion, by herself after her husband’s death. She soon learns that Dion possesses superpowers and struggles to keep it a secret. Raising Dion ran for two seasons on the streaming platform before Netflix announced its cancellation earlier this year....

The original film and TV series are based on the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, or AAGPBL, a women’s baseball league that existed from 1943 to 1954. The league was created in the midst of World War II to keep baseball going at home while a majority of men were fighting overseas. The league’s teams existed in the Midwest, spread throughout the states of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota....

You can bring one of actor/director Robert Redford’s finest films home on 1080p this July. A River Runs Through It will be released on Blu-ray on July 28th. We have no cover art for this release as of yet, but it was said this release would come with a booklet on the film, and it will be priced at $38.96 SRP. We’ll be sure to update you with any new details as soon as they emerge....

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and actress Abigail Breslin is speaking out about her own experience with domestic violence in hopes of reaching survivors who feel like they’re struggling alone. “I was in a very abusive relationship for close to 2 years. It all started out perfectly, I was so in love,” Breslin, 26, wrote in an Instagram post Friday. “Unfortunately, my abuser took advantage of innocence and naïveté and the relationship subsequently became violent....

The personal journals of late actor Alan Rickman will soon be published and among his writings are his thoughts on the Harry Potter franchise. Titled Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman, the book contains the writings from Rickman’s journals that he’d kept over the course of 25 years. During this period of time, the actor had collected 27 diaries with all of them compiled into a single book. Of course, Rickman touches on his time in the Harry Potter movie series in which he memorably played the role of Severus Snape....

Andor was a new kind of Star Wars series that showed us that not every story needed to revolve around the Skywalkers. Instead, what we got from Andor was a creative new take on a conflict that was usually as simple as saying light side vs. dark side. Typically in Star Wars, the Empire is a large, nebulous military organization that controls planetary populations through fear of their giant lasers. In Andor, the Empire had a different strategy for controlling its territory....

Fear not, Batwoman fans as Kate Kane will not be killed off. The DC series was recently dealt a surprising and significant blow when it was revealed that star Ruby Rose was leaving. The CW is pressing forward and will be casting a new actress in the lead role. That raised a lot of questions in regards to how the network could go about it, but showrunner Caroline Dries has promised that it won’t involve killing off the original Gotham City hero....

2022 has come and gone, yet the films are still on everybody’s mind as awards season has kicked off with the Oscars just months away. One category of particular interest is Best Director, as 2022 was an incredible year for some of the biggest filmmakers working today. Established names, relative newcomers, and long working overlooked directors released films that broke out and now the Best Director Oscar nomination seems more competitive than ever....